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Patented Dec. 21, 1886.

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GEORGE B. HAINES, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

NEC-KTlE-FASTENER' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.354,699, dated December 21, 1886.

Application filed April 12, 1886. Serial No. 198,580. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. HAINES, of

the city, county, and State of New York, have The object of my inventionis to provide a new and improved scarf having a metal shield p and adetachable fastener which-prevents the cloth part of the scarf from'coming in contact with the collar or shirt.

The invention consists of a scarf made of a piece of cloth folded over ametal shield and provided with a detachable fastener to which theneckband is attached.

Theinvention also consists of various parts and details and combinationsof the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointedout in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a rear view of my improved Fig. 2 is a sectional plan viewof the scarf. same on the line a m, Fig.1.

The scarf A consists of the cloth part B, folded over the metal shieldO, and the fastener D, to which the neckband E is attached. Theclothpart B is made of a single piece of cloth and is folded over themetal shieldO,

which may be of any desired shape, and the overlapping ends of the partB are sewed or otherwise fastened together, so as to hold the shield Oin place.

The fastener D is made of one piece of wire bent into a pentagonalshape, having the sides D, D", D, D, and D as showninthe drawings, andforming on one end the pin a,

held in place near its outer end by the loop 2), formed on the side D ofthe fastener D. The other end of the wire is formed into a book, 0, onwhich is secured one end of the neckband E, which is passed, when thescarf is to be worn, through the loop 01 on the side D and then aroundthe collar and through the loop 6, formed on the side D and is thensecured by the end of the pin a. The wire forming {the fastener D isalso provided with a bend, f, in the side D, which bend encircles theshank of the collar-button when the scarf is worn.

the cloth part B by passing the pin a-through the cloth part B, as shownin Fig. 1, sothat the outer end of the pin is held in place by the loopb, formed on the fastener D. It will thus be seen that the fastener Dcan easily The fastener Dis attached to the rear of be attached to thecloth part of the scarf, and

the neckband can easily be secured to the and e, and fastened by thesame pin a which holds the fastener D on the cloth part B of the shield.

The fastener D and the shield O can be used overand over again byrecovering the latter,

fastener D andheld in place by the loops d 1. The combination, with ascarf-body hav- 3 ing a detachable fastener, substantially as described, of a neckband with one end rigidly attached to-the saidfastener, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a scarf, a fastenerprovided with a pin, a, and a loop, I), for thesame,the loops at and e, and the bend f, substantially as herein shownand described.

3. In a scarf, the combination of the fast ener D, provided with a pin,a, and the loop I) for the same, the loops d and e, and the bend f, witha neckband attached to one end of the fastener, substantially as hereinshown and described.

4. In a scarf, the combination of a piece of cloth, B, and a metalshield, O, with the'detachable fastener D, provided with the pin a, theloops b, d, and e, the hook c, and the bend f, and with a neckband, E,substantially as herein shown and described.

THEO. G. Hosrnn, G. SEDGWIGK.

